Students and Staff
As a student studying at the University of Leicester there is loads to enjoy at Attenborough Arts. If you like being creative, you can learn a new art or craft every week with our brand new creative course ‘Wildcard Wednesdays’ for just £3 per class.
If you like music, spoken word or dance, you can experience the best local live music at one of our buzzing Gallery Late events. If you’re looking for work experience you can join our pool of volunteers. Or if you just want somewhere to hang out on campus, you’ll love our café bar.
Free Exhibitions
Yambe Tam: Cosmic Garden
In this exhibition, Metallic wormholes are suspended in the air above. They sing a ghostly chorus about the infinity of space: a faint siren song whose vibrations draw rippling columns that appear to grow from the mineral pool below. ‘Cosmic Garden’ is a birthplace of protean waveforms that shift between sound, light, and matter, and is a space that the artist invites us to enter and contemplate the transitory nature of things.
The World is a Work in Progress
The artists represented in the exhibition respond to these themes in markedly different ways, but their practices are connected by an interest in social and political activism, co-production and concepts of futurity. Some highlight the inequalities and prejudice that exist in our societies today, acting as a call to action in the here and now. Other works explore a variety of possible futures and invite us to collaborate in imagining the future that we want for ourselves and our communities. If the world is a work in progress, what do we want to change? What might the next 100 years have in store?
Participating Artists
Ruth Beale, Michael Forbes, Khush Kali, Vince Laws, Bob & Roberta Smith, Kai Syng Tan, Jessica Voorsanger
Student activities
Wildcard Wednesday
Gallery Late
Artist-led, Silver Vine Arts will be taking over AAC’s Gallery Late in November for an exciting evening of art and live music programmed by Magic Teapot. The event will be showcasing talented musicians and bands including Echolocation, Flynny O’Flynn, Strizzy Strauss, and Smoke Test!
There will be visual art elements to the evening by James Chantry and performance artist Queenie Tea.
There will also be the opportunity to support a wide range of local artists and buy original arts and crafts from stalls.
Silver Vine Arts will also unveil a collaborative evening of interactive art and performance, and of course life drawing will be part of the programme too.
Pottery for all Drop-in
Independent Life Drawing
Creative learning courses
Art courses for all
Drop In / If your timetable is unpredictable or you’d like to test the waters trying something new, then pop along to our drop in classes any time.
Salmon Gallery
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NUS and theatre tickets
Wide range of theatre events
Philharmonia Scholarship
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